Decoding BJP’s victory: How party outmaneuvered Thackeray ‘brand’ and Pawars in Maharashtra | Pune News

PUNE: In Maharashtra, some surnames have for long carried more weight than manifestos, like Thackeray and Pawar.For BJP, the January 15 polls and its favourable outcomes on Friday were not just about gaining control over the richest civic body in India — the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) — or to establish its governance in Pune,…

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‘Battle is not over’: Thackeray cousins’ 1st reaction on Mumbai BMC election result | Mumbai News

‘Battle is not over’: Thackeray cousins 1st reaction on Mumbai BMC election result MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT), has issued its first reaction following the results of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, striking a defiant note and indicating that the political contest in Maharashtra is far from over.In a post on social media platform X…

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‘Forced to pay for bullets that killed their kids’: Iranians in India recount Tehran horror | Dehradun News

Hospitals in the Iranian capital, Tehran, are overflowing with corpses, earthmovers clearing bodies from the streets, and families being forced to pay for the bullets that killed their children — this is the picture Iranians living in India say they are receiving from loved ones back home.Abgine Khaki, a native of Tehran who now lives…

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Mass culling exposed in Telangana: Lethal injections wipe out 500 stray dogs to keep poll promises; FIRs filed | Hyderabad News

HYDERABAD: A major controversy has erupted in Telangana’s Kamareddy and Hanamkonda districts after around 500 stray dogs were allegedly culled using lethal injections over the past week.According to a report by news agency PTI, some elected representatives — including sarpanches — allegedly carried out the killings to “fulfil promises made to locals” during the recent…

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‘From Ghazni to Aurangzeb’: PM Modi invokes history at Somnath; underscores temple’s resilience | India News

PM Modi during an address at Somnath Swabhiman Parv NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invoked the history of Somnath Temple and how ancestors had “staked their lives for the temple 1,000 years ago”, saying “flag hoisting at Somnath Mahadev Mandir shows the power of India and its capabilities to the entire world”.“From…

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‘Did nothing wrong’: Mamata Banerjee on action during ED raids; makes coal scam charge against BJP | India News

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday defended interfering during Enforcement Directorate‘s I-PAC raids, accusing the agency of attempting to “steal” her party’s details. She further levelled serious allegations against “senior BJP leaders in Delhi”, claiming that they received “coal scam proceeds” and she could “furnish proof before public”.“What I did yesterday…

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‘Modi–Trump share friendly ties’: MEA responds to Trump’s ‘sir please’ remark, says both leaders engage with ‘mutual respect’ | India News

NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday rejected recent claims by Donald Trump, declaring that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President “share a friendly relationship based on mutual respect.”Addressing the weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “Prime Minister Modi and President Trump have a friendly relationship and have always…

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‘Repeated pleas for order ignored’: Calcutta HC adjourns ED raids hearing due to court chaos; judge walks out amid shouting match | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: Aftershocks of the showdown between Enforcement Directorate (ED) and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over raids on Trinamool-linked political consultancy I-PAC jolted Calcutta high court Friday, prompting Justice Suvra Ghosh to postpone hearing petitions filed by either side till Jan 14 on grounds of “enormous disturbance and commotion” in the courtroom.The judge, seemingly annoyed…

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‘Shoot first, ask questions later’: Denmark’s warning to Trump; tensions soar over Greenland

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen (AP file photo) Denmark has warned that its troops are under standing orders to “shoot first and ask questions later” if Greenland comes under attack, as anxiety grows in Europe over the United States under President Donald Trump openly weighing military action to seize the Arctic territory.The country’s defence ministry said…

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Between the staircase and the see-saw: Did PM Modi’s reluctance to call Trump cost India a trade deal?

The TOI correspondent from Washington: US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has offered a blunt and unusually personal account of why a long-anticipated US–India trade agreement failed to materialise, placing the blame squarely on timing, political hesitation in New Delhi, and what he described as President Donald Trump’s deliberately competitive approach to deal-making. Among the reasons…

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